The New York Yankees made several moves to protect key prospects from the Rule 5 draft, but the bottom line is that they couldn’t protect all the players they might have wanted to, one of them is up and coming catcher Josh Breaux.
Losing a key prospect to the Rule 5 draft can be serious, even devastating when they lose one to a division rival. Last season in the draft they lost Garrett Whitlock, and that came back to haunt them in the season and wild card, that the Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox.